A Guide To Keyword Bookmarks

For users of Mozilla Firefox – increase productivity with these simple bookmarks.


If you are a user of Firefox, then you should consider optimizing use of certain regular websites by trying keyword bookmarks.

Keyword bookmarks are basically keyword-driven substitutes for URLs with only a mention of the search term required.

For example, to search for the meaning of a word, try the Dictionary keyword bookmark explained below.


Save this website address - http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/%s – as a bookmark and provide “dict” as the keyword. 


Next time you need to search for a definition, simply type dict in your address bar, followed by the word to directly land on the Dictionary page of the word.

Try these other bookmarks of popular websites and set keywords of your choice for them:

Search Bing - http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s 

Do a Google search - http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

Update your status on Twitter - http://twitter.com/?status=%s

Search for a Facebook friend - http://facebook.com/s.php?&q=%s

IP Address Lookup - http://www.iptools.com/dnstools.php?tool=whois&user_data=%s

Translate Spanish text to English - http://translate.google.com/translate_t#es|en|%s

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s&go=Go

There are plenty of useful keyword bookmarks available here. Simply drag them to your bookmarks bar and provide a suitable keyword for each.

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